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A wee bit of info to help you in your journey to discover your Scottish Ancestors and maybe even crack a brick wall or two!

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Staying Connected to the Pages You “Like”

Facebook has once again changed the algorithms that
determine what shows up in your news feed. The gurus have decided that if one
of your posts sparks a debate and gets lots of comments then you must want to see more of that. So the algorithms
will be pushing posts from your friends and family to the forefront of your news
feed and the pages that you like will be pushed down on the list.

The change has been, once again, to regulate the big
corporations that use free Facebook feeds as an advertising avenue. So companies,
corporations etc will be way down in your postings. Facebook doesn’t want you
spending lots of time on shopping sites, travel sites etc. They want you to
like the free stuff from friends and family. In many ways this feels like a
return to the mundane and mindlessness that was once Facebook. But you can
still have control over what pops up in your feed. Here’s how:

From your home page, go to the top right corner and look for
the little down arrow next to the big ? mark in a circle:

Click on the arrow and scroll toward the bottom of the drop down
menu to the line that says “News Feed Preferences”

Click on that line and at that top of the page that opens
you will see “Prioritize who to see first”

Click on that and everyone and
everything you follow. Simply click on the things you want showing up in your
newsfeed then click the blue box that says “DONE”

About Me

Scottish born, Canadian raised, Christine Woodcock had the
best of both worlds, growing up immersed in Scottish culture. Realising that
others of the Scots diaspora were not as fortunate, she started her business,
Genealogy Tours of Scotland (https://www.genealogytoursofscotland.ca/)
to allow others researching their Scottish roots the opportunity to return to
the land of their ancestors, conduct family history research and deepen their
sense of belonging to their ancestral kin.